Death Quote by Samuel Johnson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”

“Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.”

“He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides”

“We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.”

“One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?”

“What the dead had no speech for, when living,”

“Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.”

“Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.”